Sentence examples for widespread disinformation from inspiring English sources

David Kaye, a law professor tasked by the United Nations with researching freedom of expression and online content regulation in at least six countries, told Digital Rights Monitor in an interview published Thursday that governments are often responsible for widespread disinformation — and the United States is no exception.

In part, these moves are a reaction to the role Facebook played in the U.S. elections, where it did nothing to curb the widespread sharing of disinformation across its network – something that many have claimed helped contribute to Trump's win.

The same day, Russia's Foreign Ministry slammed media reports of widespread casualties as "disinformation," saying that while it appeared five Russian citizens had been killed in the incident, the whole thing was still uncertain — and that it wasn't even clear whether Russians were involved at all.

Then came the Trump campaign, Brexit, a resurgence of far-right extremism across Europe and the United States, and the widespread inability to distinguish information from disinformation.

The answer to the second question — why there's a widespread perception that government spending has surged, when it hasn't — is that there has been a disinformation campaign from the right, based on the usual combination of fact-free assertions and cooked numbers.

Why there's a widespread perception that government spending has surged, when it hasn't -- is that there has been a disinformation campaign from the right, based on the usual combination of fact-free assertions and cooked numbers.

A widespread belief developed among Japanese troops in Burma that the British Army's African soldiers were cannibals, partly because of deliberate disinformation spread by the black troops themselves as they travelled around the country.

The information diffusion in social networks due to misinformation or disinformation could follow different patterns of propagation and could be as a result of an orchestrated campaign to mimic widespread information diffusion behaviour.

Was this disinformation?

We call that disinformation".

But this is disinformation.